04 July 2011

For several years Microsoft's Office Marketplace has been an important marketing channel for the kalmstrom.com products. It has given us many new visitors to the website ‒
and also many customers, since those visitors often are just the skilled
IT professionals we want to reach. Now Microsoft has given us another opportunity to introduce our products to this group
of people: Microsoft Pinpoint.

Microsoft Pinpoint was introduced in the U.S. a couple of years ago
as a way to help small and midsize businesses to connect to
Microsoft partners like kalmstrom.com Business Solutions. However, that first version of Pinpoint was more locally aimed and not as interesting to us
as Office Marketplace. Recently Microsoft changed their Pinpoint site, and now we can showcase our applications in a better way and also more efficiently explain how they extend and enrich specific Microsoft
products and platforms.

All kalmstrom.com products are now listed in the 51 English speaking countries
supported by Pinpoint and in the only Swedish speaking one. Soon we hope to be on the pages for Spanish and German speaking countries also.

When we were accepted at Microsoft Pinpoint we were also given a chance to be presented at special
platform marketplaces. Some testing and verifications are needed, though, and our dedicated junior developer Vijayant Rimza is busy with that task right now. It will take some time, but so far
PF HelpDesk
has passed the test for the Windows Azure Marketplace, and
HelpDesk OSP
is already listed on the
Microsoft Office 365 Marketplace. We will continue the work!